Isle of Wight-Halifax County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Dodson, Melvin S. Sr., 1980 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MELVIN SCOTT DODSON Smithfield - A funeral service for Melvin Scott Dodson, 61, was held Thursday at 3 p.m. in Smithfield Baptist Church by the Rev. Warren F. Taylor. Burial was in St. Luke’s Memorial Park. He died Tuesday in Louise Obici Memorial Hospital, Suffolk. A native of Halifax County, he was the husband of Mrs. Nancy Bryant Dodson. He was retired owner-operator of Dodson Equipment Co. He was member of Smithfield Baptist Church and president of the Smithfield Kiwanis Club and Smithfield Senior German Club. He also was a past president of the Farm and Industrial Dealers Association. Other survivors include a son, Melvin Scott Dodson, Jr. of Smithfield; a daughter, Miss Nancy Hall Dodson of Charlottesville; and two brothers, Lewis M. Dodson of Turbeville and George E. Dodson of Franklin. [Melvin Scott DODSON, Sr., retired owner-operator of Dodson Equipment Co., Halifax Co. native, d. 12 Feb 1980, Suffolk, age 61, interred in St. Luke’s Memorial Park, 14 Feb 1980, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 18, 1980, p. 11] [file transcribed by Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net); and re-formatted by File Manager.] file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/d325m1ob.txt